Curtain-fastener.



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KENTUCKY, Af (.ORPORATION OF KENTUCKY'.

ouRTAIN-iASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented out. 15, 1907.

Appucanon ined une 4,1907. serial No. 271,793.

To all whom il may concern:

e it known that I, ALFRED FRESC'HL, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago. county of Cook, State of 1lli1iois,'have invented certain l new and useful Improvements in GurtainFasteners, of which th'e following is a specification.

In curtain fasteners, such as are used for carriage curtains, automobile curtains, the curtains of railway coaches, etc., the member of the fastener which is made stationary by being secured to the post of the carriage top, or to the frame of the automobile, has heretofore been of a construction such that it would .catch in the cloth or .other substances used for cle aning the saine, or would become accidentally'broken because of its construction.

v It is the object of my invention to provide .a curtain I fastener in ,which the stationary' or male member is of a` simple construction, so as not to. become broken accidentally and which may, moreover. receive more than one of the movable female members attached to differ-I entl curtains, without causing the saine to become bulky. This object is attained by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawing. in which. Figure l is a front elevation of a curtain fastener embodying my invention; inits closed position. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of thesame', showing the relative positions of the male and female members before the curtain is secured in place thereby. Fig. 3 is a central sectional view of the members in the positions they occupy as the female member is being placed. over the male member.

Referring to the parts: The fixed, or male member,

vconsists of a post, A. rhaving annular grooves. a, a',

which is secured toa plat-e. A. Tlieplate, A, is to be riveted to a fixed member. B, such as the frame of a car riage.- or automobile, or the `frame of a window in a railway carriage. The movable. or female member of the fastener, consistsof aneyelet. C. having aperforation. c, and a key', or hook, D, which is pivoted at nl. to the eyelet, C, and has a notch, d', of a'width equal to the diameter of the post, A, at the grooves` a. a. The. key.

D, is' pivot'ed to the eyelet` C, in a position such that the notch, d. will be in the path of the perforation. c, when the key is rotated .upon its pivot, d. The female member is to be secured to the edge of the curtain, E.-

1 The operation is vas follows: lf there be but one curtain, E, -to fasten it in place, the eyelet. vC, is placed downV over the post, A, While the key. D. is standing free of the perforation, c. Then key.-D, is rota-ted so that the notch, d', passes around the post, A. either at groove. a. or at the groove, a. .The key, D, then securely locks the post and the eyelet together. If there be two curtains to be secured to the'post, A, the first one is 'placed so that its key, D, takes into the groove-` a. The second curtain may then be placed so that its -key will take into the curtain, a.

What I claim is: 1n a curtain fastener the combination of a' post having "in it a,series of grooves. an eyelet to pass over the post.

and a key'pivoted upon the eyelet to engage any one of the grooves in the post.

. ALFRED FRESCHL.

Witnesses:

'JOHN A. E. Warm' LoUIsE FRESCHL. 

